Where there is light, there is darkness.

The land of the Holy Religion is a vast and beautiful country, but that doesn't mean it's heaven. Darkness and evil will always breed in the places where humans gather, even in the land of the Holy Religion.

The city of Keha.

It's a city on the border, and on the surface, it doesn't have the seriousness and seriousness of a typical border city, on the contrary, the bustling and elegant architecture and rolling villas make it look more like a holiday destination. The green mountains and green waters, the clean and tidy streets and the flat and tall city walls make it all look extremely luxurious and beautiful.

But now, those murderous soldiers have shattered all this tranquility.

"They're here again."

Sitting in the tavern, watching the heavily armed soldiers walk down the street, a man dressed in black chuckled and spoke. He raised his glass, took a sip of ale, and sneered.

"Do you think they look like a pack of wild dogs that have been kicked out by their owners?"

"What's the solution, after all, I heard that it was the city lord's waste son who died this time."

The woman sitting next to him shook her head, although her tone was quite helpless, but there was also a smile on her face.

"How did he die this time?"

"I heard that I accidentally fell off the balcony and died."

Saying this, the woman nodded meaningfully.

"Quite a few people have seen it with their own eyes."

"yes........."

Hearing the woman's answer, the man in black sneered.

"Accident......... It's everywhere, and our Grim Reaper-sama is really powerful. ”

"Be quiet, idiot."

The woman stomped on the man viciously, making his expression look less weird.

"Don't you know what it means to be low-key? That rumor is just a rumor, but it's not just a rumor! Be careful, if you talk nonsense, you might be the next one to suffer! ”

Hearing this, the man's face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't dare to speak anymore.

It all started with the "Death Exchange" half a month ago.

In this city of Keha, there is a rumored "Death Exchange", which is not a meeting place for necromancers, nor does it have anything to do with hell, in fact, it is a dark Assassin colony. Assassins from various factions, or none of them, would take on missions in the Death Exchange and assassinate their targets. Of course, all this was kept secret, and those commissions were placed on specially treated wooden boards, and only the Assassins were allowed to take them. Of course, the Death Exchange also has strict restrictions and hierarchies, and those Assassins who complete the mission will be promoted before they are eligible for more dangerous missions.

And just half a month ago, an incident happened in the Exchange of Death.

An unknown assassin took a commission to assassinate the captain of the city guard.

It wasn't a big deal, so the Assassins didn't care, but just a day later, the Death Exchange confirmed the death of the captain of the guard.

Not to die on the way home, nor to disappear into some dark corner, but to get drunk and fall off the city gate, and then "snap" in front of everyone.

And then......... Naturally, there is no then.

No one takes this seriously, a small city guard captain, and it is also a well-known thing that he likes to drink heavily, because he accidentally stepped on a loose brick because he drank too much, and then fell and fell to his death.

But what everyone didn't expect was that not long after the death of the captain of the guard, the power of attorney returned to the death exchange, and it was a request for confirmation.

That is, the captain of the garrison was not killed by accident, but by some assassin?

The Death Exchange was able to become a well-known underground assassin gathering place in the darkness, of course, they had their own ability, they invited the most powerful prophetic mage on their side, and then predicted and investigated the death of the captain of the guard, and came to the conclusion that it was ......... The captain of the guard did die in an accident.

Since the facts and evidence are conclusive, it is naturally impossible for the thief who fishes in troubled waters to succeed, so the Death Exchange naturally revoked this commission. Of course, they didn't find the assassin who accepted the commission, and at that time they only thought that the thief was probably planning to take advantage of the opportunity, so they deliberately hid his head and tail. Especially after the Death Exchange revoked the commission, the assassin did not come out to explain, which made the Death Exchange more and more convinced that the other party might just be lucky, and after receiving the commission, the entrusted target accidentally died due to an accident, so he planned to mix up a reward.

And after that, something strange happened.

In the Death Exchange, there was a connection where someone took the commission, and then the assassination targets who were commissioned all died due to various accidents. These orders were also returned to the Exchange for confirmation after the death of the mission target, but the Exchange's Prophet investigated the results of each order......... Accidental death.

Once or twice can be considered an accident, but a large number of similar "accidents" in a short period of time are not accidents.

The person in charge of the Death Exchange is not a fool, their prophetic mage is a legendary-level mage, but even the other party can't detect any signs......... How is this possible?

The assassins of this world are very powerful, but they are also assassins after all, to put it bluntly, they are still the kind of existence that hides in the dark and kills with one blow. The greatest strength of the Assassins here is their patience and their ubiquitous assassination operations. They can wait for more than half a year for a target, looking for flaws in the target all the time, seeking a one-hit kill. They can also use their cursed or magical weapons to break through their opponents' defenses, but even then, they still have to do it themselves.

Because of this, these Assassins usually relied on special means to conceal themselves, and at the same time, the Assassins did not take out their star patterns casually. In other words, in this world, everyone knows that it is an assassination, at most they don't know who the assassin is.

But......... This assassin's "assassination" is no longer an assassination.

It's more like a declaration of death.

Of course, at the beginning, the Death Exchange did not pay much attention to this "assassin", because although the people killed by the other party were not of low status, their strength was very weak. If it is someone whose strength is far beyond them, then it is not impossible to play them to death with this kind of strong power, at most it is just a bad taste.

However, when one of the family's high-ranking mages was assassinated, things immediately took a turn for the worse.

Of course, according to the person who checked it at the time, the mage suddenly lost control of the spell when he released the magic, and then devoured himself and died suddenly. Throughout, the mage showed no signs of being mind-controlled, and the temple priest had examined the corpse and stated that it had not been poisoned or had taken some kind of psychic drug.

If I had changed to another place, I am afraid that it would only be regarded as a mistake by a high-level mage, and I would not have paid too much attention to it.

But the Death Exchange doesn't see it that way.

Because just before the death of this high-ranking mage, his assassination commission was taken away by the "Grim Reaper".

And when the high-level mage died, the "commission" was sent back.

For a moment, the entire upper echelons of the Exchange of Death were shocked.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, an assassin has an advantage over a mage, in fact, the last thing an assassin wants to face is a mage, and a high-level mage. Because after reaching the middle level, mages will use various methods to store defensive spells to deal with unexpected situations, whether it is secret assassination, poisoning, or even if the people around the mage are mentally controlled, it is impossible to take advantage of him to raid when he is not defended. And once a mage is prepared, then the next unlucky one must be the assassin.

So for those powerful assassins, it is better to have them assassinate a mage than to assassinate those high-ranking warriors or swordsmanship masters or even druids. After all, in the face of these professions, they still have a certain degree of certainty, but in the face of mages, they basically rely on their faces to bet on whether the other party is really stupid enough to be killed by an assassin.

Of course, the Assassins were generally dark-faced......... The ending, naturally, there is no need to ask.

But right now, how could an assassin kill a high-ranking mage in such a strange and easy way? What's more, how he did it without anyone being noticed at all!

This immediately attracted the attention of the Death Exchange, and even the three legendary powerhouses within the Death Exchange were all dispatched, and they stayed in front of the entrusted Kanban to find the assassin.

But then, a terrifying scene happened.

Another order quietly disappeared, followed by an "accidental death", and that order returned to the Death Exchange again. And the problem is that during this whole process, those three powerhouses didn't find anything at all!

This means that the other party has escaped the joint search of a powerful prophetic mage, a legendary killer and a legendary thief, and has entered and exited the death exchange as if it were no man's land, but no one has noticed!

Is this still human!?

As things gradually fermented, the fact that an "invisible death" appeared in the death exchange was also widely spread, and many people had heard of it. Because of this, they were even more frightened. There were even people who bought off the Assassins to find out who the "invisible Grim Reaper" was going to target, so as to investigate and prevent it. But......... All this is of little use.

“…………… The Invisible 'Grim Reaper'? ”

The armor-clad sheriff looked up at his pale subordinate in front of him.

"Isn't this a normal accident? You and I saw it with your own eyes. ”

"Of course, Lord Conan........."

Hearing the sheriff's inquiry, the attendant in front of him was also in a cold sweat.

"As you said, we were invited to the ball, and we saw the ............ with our own eyes, both you and I Absurdity........."

Saying this, the squire's face also showed a hint of disapproval. Because the waste son of the dead city lord is a slutty person, and he loves to play with women the most. In fact, when they went to the dinner party hosted by the city lord this time, they also saw with their own eyes how annoying that prodigal man was. He planned to forcibly take the maid away after he failed to molest her. In the process, the swinger suddenly lost his balance on the smooth floor, and then hit the railing of the second-floor balcony, perhaps because the railing was in disrepair and broken, and then fell to his death in full view.

Of course, Knight Conan saw this, and he was going to walk over to stop the idiot's stupidity. Although he is now retired, as a former Templar, he cannot remain indifferent to such things.

Not to mention that this idiot son has a pretty bad reputation in the city, and after his death, the entire city can almost be said to be celebrating, if it weren't for the scruples of the city lord, it is estimated that the streets would have started to hold celebrations at this time.

But now, the city lord has come to him, saying that he is searching for a "Grim Reaper"?

What the hell is this?